Seven Seas #4 Epic CGC Graded Key Golden Age *SOLD*

Seven Seas #4 Epic CGC Matt Baker Golden Age

Seven Seas #4 is an Epic comic and here we have a CGC 6.5 graded version.  It has Julie Numar-style cover art by Bob Baker.  Julie did Catwoman for those not familiar with this look.

We also see styling from Betty Page mixed in with classic underwater scenery.  Matt Baker’s artwork on the ladies eventually became known as “Good Girl” comics.   There was a look of hometown ladies mixed with exotic and a touch of the risqué (for the time).

Our Seven Seas #4 comic has been authenticated and graded by CGC, the authority on comics.  It received a superb 6.5 grade, which in Golden Age comics is extremely challenging to get.

Pages are white to off-white, again, a giant accolade for such an old comic.   The colors are vibrant.

Our comic contacts agree this is one of the finest “South Seas Girl” comics, and one of the best pieces of art in its class.  Comic #4 is a Key and iconic cover.  The condition and color are exceptional.  The “Good Girl”, as well as the shark, are beyond compare & iconic.

Matt Baker and Seven Seas

Mark Seifert nails the history of Seven Seas Comics– “The short-lived title Seven Seas Comics published by Samuel “Jerry” Iger’s own Universal Phoenix Feature company might be considered a turning point or level-up of sorts in the context of Matt Baker’s career. The series began about a year and a half after his comics debut on Sheena in Jumbo Comics, and his style had evolved significantly towards the form that would make him a legend in subsequent decades. Baker’s work on the character South Sea Girl in all six issues of this series, and on the covers of its final four issues, was the beginning of a higher profile for Baker’s Good Girl artistic skill.”  Cover art #4 is considered by many to be his best work.

Matt Baker History

Wikipedia illuminates Baker’s history and important influence on the comic world development– “Baker was born December 10, 1921, in Forsyth County, North Carolina.  At a young age he relocated with his family to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,  and after graduating high school in 1940, moved to Washington, D.C. Prevented by a heart condition from being drafted into the U.S. military during World War II, he began studying art at Cooper Union, in New York City.  He entered comics through the Jerry Iger Studio, one of the 1930s to 1940s “packagers” that provided outsourced comics to publishers entering the new medium.  Iger recalled that Baker came into his studio with a single sample of a color sketch in his portfolio; he thought the woman was so naturally beautiful that he hired Baker on the spot, as a background artist before he was given his first scripts. Baker’s first confirmed comics work is penciling and inking the women in the 12-page “Sheena, Queen of the Jungle” story in Fiction House’s Jumbo Comics #69 (cover-dated Nov. 1944), otherwise penciled by Robert Webb and Alex Blum.

Much of Baker’s work was originally penciled backgrounds as well as female figures for other artists, and most of his work has been inked over, with the inker credited for his work. He quickly developed a reputation as one of the best “Good Girl” artists in the business for his attention to detail when drawing women.

During this period, known as the Golden Age of Comic Books, Baker did work for publishers including Fiction House, Fox Comics, Quality Comics, and St. John Publications. In later years, he independently teamed with inker Jon D’Agostino under the pseudonym Matt Bakerino at Charlton Comics.”